I love their first 3 albums, everything else they did is to my opinion OK but not much more than that...

On their earlier work they sound like a young and enthousiastic band to me, on the more recent released they sound like a professional band that capably repeats the same old trick... They're still good at it, but the spirit is just different.

Fresh ideas? Bands like the Buzzcocks and the Descendents did pretty much the same thing 25 years ago...

Concept cd yes the "punk part" no the concept part! If you listen to this cd there are more hard rock songs on here then "punk" AS the band stated we just want to be a popular "Rock Band" not necessarly "punk".

Okay, now THAT I'm interested in. I don't think Green Day is on the top of anything. If ever they were on the top, it was in the 90's. They're making a big mistake marketing this album the way they are. All the cell phone commercial ads and crap. It's making them seem very ordinary. I'm not crazy about American Idiot. I think they were going for some great new innovative thing claiming it to be a "Punk Opera." It didn't quite have the same impact on today's pop culture as Tommy did now did it?